Historical calendar – the anniversary of the death of a mentally unstable revolutionary, utopiat and pest of the Polish case – Ludwik Mierosławski.
Today in our calendar we will look at his life and activities.
Louis was born in the Polish-French household of Napoleonic officer Kaspra Mierosławski and Adelaide Notté de Vaupleux. He spent his youth with his parent in France, then went after his father to Poland and settled in Łomża. He was educated at a local drinking school. In 1826 he joined the cadet corps in Kalisz. The November Revolution found him on work in the garrison of Warsaw. It is not known if he was active in the conspiracy of Piotr Wysocki's subjects.
In any case, he joined his troops with the rebels and helped them capture the capital arsenal. Promoted to Lieutenant, he moved to the 2nd Sandomierz Voivodeship Infantry Regiment. By the end of the insurgents' battles, he changed his assignments respective times more. He fought in the conflict of Grochow, then trained young recruits. In September 1831 he and another survivors crossed the border of the Free City of Krakow. For fear of being imprisoned by the Czarski authorities, he emigrated to France.
For any time, he stayed in a camp in Besançon, where, due to his cognition of the language, he mediated in contacts of Polish veterans with the French authorities. He joined the local free-meal lodge “de la Constante Amitié”. He besides made contact with Parisian patriotic circles. He rapidly underwent radicalization towards Republican and revolutionary. His pride and interior conviction of having exclusivity to right and fact grew.
Other independency activists were accused of inability and softness, while he felt that Poland should be fought with utmost methods from the darkest pages of the French Revolution. It is no wonder that with specified views he has powered the extremist masonry of alleged carbonarism (carbonism). In 1834 he became a associate of the secret organization Young Poland, in which he assumed the nickname “Shuja”. He personally met coal chiefs like Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. On their orders, he tried to organize revolutionary circles among Poles and Frenchmen.
He moved to Paris, where he officially undertook literary activity. His psychic curvature resulted in a moral scandal erstwhile he included perverse erotic scenes in his poem “The Iron Mary”. average polonium wheels felt scandalous and wanted nothing to do with it. This rejection was another proof for Mierosławski to claim the softness of the leaders of Polish emigration.
Without being offended by defeat, he wrote “The communicative of the Polish Revolution” in which he mixed fact with falsehood, but gained designation of people who had no thought of the real events of the November Uprising. He became a associate of the Literary Society and editor of the magazine "La Pologne Pittoresque". In 1843 he joined the Polish Democratic Society, which planned to establish a fresh uprising in the country.
At associate meetings of lectures, military theory, but in his teachings there was more revolutionary zeal than actual and useful future insurgent knowledge. In 1845 he left for Wielkopolska where he organized an insurgent plot. He wrote utopian instructions and manifestos in which he called for a war of independency and a extremist social revolution. According to him, Poland, born in the fire of war, was to become a democratic republic.
He was traveling around without following conspiracy rules. He was arrested and thrown into prison by the Prussians. During the investigation, he started spending his associates. He then keyed by claiming that the outbreak of the uprising in Wielkopolska was directed against Russia, not Prussia. He was sentenced to death, but was saved by a riot in Berlin. The revolutionous crowd opened the gates of the Moab prison and released him.
Mierosławski immediately got to Wielkopolska and called for a revolution. shortly battles broke out and he was called chief chief. The mediocre preparation of the insurgents rapidly led to defeat, and the unfortunate “leader” fled abroad. At the command of the coal miners, he entered Sicily where he took part in the revolutionary battles against the monarchy there. He took command of a key section of the front and was crushed by royalist forces.
After his defeat, he left for Germany and became the leader of the uprising in Baden and Palatinate. He didn't show up here either. He lost even faster than in Sicily. He returned to Paris, where he lived under the supervision of the French police. He earned his life as a governer, and in his public appearances he brutally attacked average polonian leaders and his erstwhile subordinates, upon whom he blamed for the failure of the revolutionary movement.
He besides turned into an inventor and tried to make a wonderful weapon, thanks to which another uprising in Poland will surely succeed. He constructed, among others, a combat car equipped with scythes, a folding bomb, a bulletproof breadcake and a infantry firearm called a "metroscan". In the late 1950s, he loudly criticized an organic work program that he considered a waste of time. He opposed him to the thought of fast change, of course on the way of an armed revolution.
In 1860, Garibaldi appointed him as the commander of the “international legion” to participate in the Italian unification war. The branch was yet not created due to besides fewer volunteers. A year later Mierosławski became the commandant of the Polish military school in Genoa, acting in favour of the Italian government. He caused a immense scandal there. He claimed to be a Polish Bonaparte, and from his students he tried to organize a revolutionary defender and his individual side guard.
Confused with opposition from his subjects and another lecturers, he returned to Paris. There he succumbed to the instigations of John Kurzyna, who had skillfully fed his gigantic ego. The young man disinformation Mierosławski on the scale of insurgent preparations in the Kingdom of Poland. Furthermore, he claimed that Poles saw him as dictator of the fresh revolt. Encouraged Mierosławski began to fight Polish organizations that did not support the uprising and did not recognise its leadership role.
In turn, he sent to the country manifestos and his images in the company of Garibaldi. The naive national patriots considered this as evidence of pan-European support for the Polish uprising. The peculiar images of the 2 coalmen were treated with godly reverence and respect. On January 19, 1863, the National Central Committee recognized Mierosławski as dictator of the uprising. He came to the Kingdom in February to take command after a fewer days and 2 lost battles and return to Paris.
Interestingly, 1 of the causes of the defeat under the Corrupt was the attitude of the dictator, who alternatively of taking convenient positions to fight... was to assemble 1 of the wonderful inventions – a combat car with scythes. Returning to France, he tried to justify his inability. To this end, he began criticizing Marian Langiewicz and another leaders and general preparations for the upheaval he felt was inadequate.
When the National Government appointed him as the commander of the Polish army formed outside the borders of the partition, he again declared himself chief of the full uprising, bringing confusion into Romuald Traugutt's work. Even before the end of the fight, he began to sue his opponents in French courts. In 1865, he formed the Democratic Society, in which he assumed dictatorial functions. shortly he began to cut out from the group all who, even to a tiny extent, did not share his imagination of the world. Nevertheless, in 1870 the opponents joined forces and expelled him from their own organization. He returned to work on inventions. He died in poorness and abandonment.
Louis Mierosławski is an example of a fierce revolutionary and utopiat. His gigantic pride and belief in having a monopoly on the fact had a considerable impact on the failures of the uprisings and the death of thousands of patriots. The coal nickname “shuja” perfectly reflected his character and attitude towards the Polish case, to which he was a perennial pest.
It can be compared with today's Wojciech “Jarat” Olszański, with the fact that unfortunately Mierosławski gained much greater listening among naive, declarative patriots. His stupidity and anxiety were given to many Poles. quite a few them actually believed the insurrectionary propaganda, saying that this madman might be the salvation of the Nation.
Worse still, the Mierosławski legend remains alive present among the losers.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
